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s treason......December, 1806 Digest of civil law adopted, legislature adjourned......March 31, 1808 General Wilkinson, ordered to New Orleans with troops, arrives April 19. He is afterwards relieved by Wade Hampton......1809 Citizens of Baton Rouge territory attack the reduced garrison of the fort at Baton Rouge, and in the skirmish the Spanish Governor Grandpe is shot, and the garrison capitulates......September, 1810 Convention of the people of Baton Rouge territory at St. Francisville frame a constitution, elect a governor, and establish the independent Territory of west Florida......Sept. 29, 1810 Under proclamation of the President, Governor Claiborne takes possession of west Florida, and annexes it to the Territory of Orleans......Dec. 7, 1810 An insurrection of slaves in the parish of St. John is suppressed after sixty or more are killed. The heads of sixteen who were captured and executed were set on poles along the river as a warning......January, 1811